Nicole Segers Photography

Where Europe ends / Trilogy #1

Encounters along the new eastern border

In the project Het einde van Europa. Ontmoetingen langs de nieuwe oostgrens(Where Europe ends. Encounters along the new eastern border) I traveled along the five thousand kilometers long eastern border of Europe, to experience the immensity of the expanded European empire.

This border runs through Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. In search of images which reflect the atmosphere of the different countries and their histories, I photographed the border area and its inhabitants.

The pictures were published, along with the text of writer Irene van der Linde, in an unique combination of literary journalism and documentary photography: Het einde van Europa. Ontmoetingen langs de nieuwe oostgrens, Lemniscaat, 2004. The book was published in French in 2010 as Gens des Confins. Sur la frontière orientale de l’Europe by Les Editions Nor sur Blanc, 2010.

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FINLAND - Reindeer herd neer Sevettijarvi

ESTONIA - overlooking the banks of the river Narva towards Russia

ESTONIA - unemployed Russian workers in a poorhouse in Narva

LATVIA - at the table with a Russian family in Pasiene at the border with Russia

LITHUANIA - woman with sickle in Zervynos at the border with Belarus

POLAND - at the border with Ukraine in the Bieszcady mountains

POLAND - charcoalburners in Chmiel in the Bieszcady mountains

SLOVAKIA - Roma settlement in Chminianske Jakuvobany near the border with Ukraine

SLOVAKIA - in the Roma settlement of Svinia near the border with Ukraine

HUNGARY - fair in Vasarosnameny near the border with Ukraine

HUNGARY - bar in Tarpa at the border with Ukraine

ROMANIA - monthly cattle market in Sighet at the border with Ukraine

ROMANIA - at a wedding party in Poienile Izei at the border with Ukraine